wedrifid comments on White Lies - Less Wrong

38 Post author: ChrisHallquist 08 February 2014 01:20AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 February 2014 03:14:39AM *  1 point [-]

This sounds right and is the central idea of you post.

Maybe you should place "accept other people's right to lie to you." as a summary at the top?

By my way of interpreting the post treating this idea as central does the post a great disservice. Most of the post is excellent but that particular paragraph is a clumsy social move and questionably simplistic advice.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 08 February 2014 04:20:58AM 2 points [-]

Then I'm interested as what you see as the central point.

When I read exactly that paragraph it seems to sumarize it nicely. But maybe I fell prey to the "clumsy social move" although I believe I read over that appeal.

If you really see a different central point then this might mean that the post has less clear a focus as Chris might wish.